Allumette Island Massacre

The people in Pontiac County of West Quebec have handed the oral story of Michael Bradley killing of five members of his family on a July morning in 1933 down from generation to generation. By researching newspaper accounts from the reporting of the discovery of the slain bodies, to the investigation, to his arrest and to the trials and finally his hanging in Campbell’s Bay on April 5, 1935, Keith Landry has written the detailed story in such a way that the reader feels they are in real time.

Detective Sergeant JP Dalpe, the lead detective in the investigation, is a dominant character in more of Landry’s crime books. These books are Dalpe’s Crime Chronicles and Dalpe and the Nazi. During the late winter of 2021, Keith will publish Dalpe and the Communist Spies.

This is a revision of the original story published in the book Allumette Island Massacre and Three Other Canadian Crime Stories. the original book is no longer being printed.